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By: Scott Larson
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Over one hundred people from Native American communities marched across the Veteran's Memorial Bridge Wednesday afternoon. This is the 10th annual March to Honor Lost Children. The Native American tribes do the walk to raise awareness of what they believe to be a broken foster care system. The community is working together now with the Department of Human Services to get children out of foster homes and back to their families and heritage.
Frank LeMere, a member of the Winnebago Tribe and Four Directions, says, "The system feeds on our children. And there was a time when they sought to take needy children away from their families and make them into something else...and you can't, they are who they are. We talk about the need to bring our families back together."
Marlo Gilpin-Tuttle and her son, Noah Christopher, is just one example of a family reuniting. Marlo had her son taken at the age of one because she couldn't care for him. After participating in the very first Lost Children March, a photo of Marlo carrying a picture of her son was taken by the Des Moines Register. Noah Christopher's foster family saw the photo and arranged a meeting where she met her son again after eight long years apart. Marlo says, "It's very exciting – I get to visit him, have a relationship with him. I'm just really grateful for this march."
LaMere says there's still a long ways to go in strengthening Native American communities. He says that this march helps to renew the tribe's spirit to work toward a brighter future.
